The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 2
They were all three beautiful, but the youngest was the fairest.
Who acts: woman, youngest · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, youngest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beautiful | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 beautiful | nummod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fairest | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 fairest | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 youngest | det |
| 9 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 fairest | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fairest | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fairest | det |
| 12 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 beautiful | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | woman | all, beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the youngest | fair property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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